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W Tresper Clarke High School
740 EDGEWOOD DRIVE, WESTBURY, N.Y., 11590 | Grades 9-12
| Students | Total Teachers | Inexp. Teachers | AP Courses | |
| This School |
845
|
66
|
6% | 14 |
| District | 7,440 | 549 | 4% | 14 |
| State | 2.07M | 171,244 | 14% | 7 |
W Tresper Clarke High School, part of the East Meadow Union Free School District, is located in Westbury, New York. The school reports enrolling 845 students in grades nine through 12, and it has 66 teachers on staff.
W Tresper Clarke High School is below the state average but above the district average in terms of the percentage of its students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. On average, 49 percent of students in New York are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch programs, whereas 13 percent of W Tresper Clarke High School students are eligible. At the district level, 11 percent of students are eligible.
ProPublica's analysis found that all too often, states and schools provide poor students fewer educational programs like Advanced Placement, gifted and talented programs, and advanced math and science classes. Studies have linked participation in these programs with better outcomes later in life. Our analysis uses free and reduced-price lunch to estimate poverty at schools. We based our findings on the most comprehensive data set of access to advanced classes and special programs in U.S. public schools — known as the Civil Rights Data Set— released by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
W Tresper Clarke High School offers 14 AP courses, and 26 percent of students participate in those classes.
The school's pass rate for AP exams of 74 percent is below the district average of 77 percent.
A school's AP pass rate is determined by the number of students who both sat for AP exams and passed some or all of those exams.
W Tresper Clarke High School enrolls 9 percent of students in advanced math classes, and 15 percent of students take chemistry. The enrollment rate for physics at the school is 4 percent.
High School For Teaching And The Professions, in Bronx, N.Y., is a higher-poverty school than W Tresper Clarke High School, with 99 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school offers four AP courses, and 11 percent of students are enrolled in those courses.
These data points were reported by schools and districts to the Office for Civil Rights. For more information about the data, see our full methodology.
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